I might be wrong, but I believe ONE OF the reasons why American police is so shitty is because every citizen might be—and often is—carrying a gun. This causes stress in the police force, higher chances of casualties among them as compared to other countries, so it builds feelings of fear and "acting first, asking later" in most situations.
Sure, many of them are also power-tripping assholes on top of that.
I could give you a few real-life examples where it’s been helpful to me, but honestly, there are probably hundreds more depending on the person—as long as it’s used properly and not treated as flawless or final.
I’m a kindergarten teacher.
I describe what we’ve done in class, and it turns that into a short caption for the school’s daily social media post. Saves a bit of time.
For weekly assessments, I speak freely about each child’s week, and it generates a well-written comment. That’s a moderate time-saver, and I learn better phrasing from its output as I'm a non-native English speaker.
It helps me brainstorm new daily activity ideas based on specific goals or parameters. I choose the ones that fit and tweak them as needed.
When I’ve tried multiple strategies with a difficult child, I use it to get fresh suggestions for guidance or behavior management. I still apply my own experience to decide what works best.
It helped me plan a trip based on location, time, and several other factors—and it provided a lot of useful details I hadn’t considered.
It’s replaced Google for many tasks: it’s faster, often more accurate (if prompted clearly), and definitely more efficient for basic info.
I also use it for translation, and in many cases, it gives better or more natural results than Google Translate.
It helped me rewriting this very comment (till point 7) as I'm busy with something else so I saved time spellchecking and rephrasing.
In the US nowadays that means people who aren't aggressive, childish, xenophobic, homophobic, bigot, racist, egotistical, selfish, nazi, trumpist, or MAGA.
Edit: I forgot misogynistic
I was thinking the exact same thing the other day. I still meet users of opposite opinions here—which was never a problem, but exchanges are mostly at a polite, educated, and respectful level. Nothing like the childish POS that lurk in Reddit in every sub.
If some people find it too hard or stupid to be on Lemmy, then that's people I doubt will enrich my online experience in any way.
Just to clarify something that has been bothering me for some time, a "religious person" isn't necessarily homophobic. A "BIGOT religious person" might be—and usually is.
I've been religious (Christian Catholic) all my life, very much so in my childhood, and my family is still very involved with church on a daily basis, with my dad being a deacon. None of us is homophobic and never was.
I'm not very knowledgeable in Bible, but I believe Jesus himself (son of God) never ever talked about or against homosexuality in his teachings, but rather he always promoted compassion and tolerance towards everyone. The homophobic bits in the Bible come from people in the culture of the time. Even Jesus's disciples weren't perfect, I believe that's well known.
Extra OT:
Jesus, although promoting peace and tolerance, did famously get mad when a holy place got exploited and turned into a place of trade and commerce (oh the irony! Imagine what he would today...).
He also wasn't very tolerant of hypocrites, of rich people who advertised their minimal-effort charity acts while looking down at poorer people's charity donations, of people in power who lacked compassion, and other POS categories like that.
Dude was legit rad. Most self-proclaimed "Christian Bible lovers" will never understand how revolutionary and "communist" he actually was. They're stuck with some words from common people victim of the culture of the time.
Listed under "Extras and emulators/engines"! Thanks for the entry :)
I'm not sure what was on itch.
Superluminal Vagrant Twin is on itch and apparently can be played in browser.
OK the game has been delisted. Thanks for checking!
Added, thank you :)
Are these browser games, or they have a file to be loaded into Fabularium, or both?
I found them on itch.io, but I'd appreciate some links (if any other) and some more info about the kind of games they are, like:
are they apps?
browser games?
roms for emulator?
FOSS or not?
Sorry if I sound pedantic, but I go through many entries to verify, get links for, and classify into genre. Thanks :)
Yep! I wasn't justifying them.